If you’re thinking about recruiting your first member of staff, then you might want to spend five minutes watching our video guide to employment law.
Waterfront employment solicitor, Anthony Purvis, covers the ins and outs of recruitment advertising, the importance of having a written contract and staff handbook, how to manage employees proactively and offers some advice about dismissal procedures in this succinct guide.
Anthony said, It’s often a very exciting time for businesses, when they are considering recruiting their first employees. If you follow some simple steps you can reduce your risk of employment claims and concentrate on growing your business.”
Most employers are keen to avoid dismissing staff in whom they have invested time and money but this is not always possible.
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), sometimes referred to as “gagging clauses”, are rarely out of the news.
On 5 December 2022, following its Making Flexible Working The Default consultation, which has now concluded, the UK government announced that it will be introducing reforms to the law around employees’ rights to make flexible working requests.
I was interested to read the recent reports in the Guardian and BBC News that Elon Musk has sent an email which requires all staff to sign a commitment to working “long hours at high intensity” and being “extremely hardcore”. They report that the alternative is that they will receive three months’ severance pay.